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does anybody know where i can find in-depth info on ayahuasca/psilocybin ceremonies performed by shamans please? i'm doing a skit in my Myth, Ritual, and Mysticism class on the ceremony, and I definitely don't want to misportray the ceremony. :-)

there are several books & even a recording (by wasson & co.) of maria sabina's mushroom velada...
there are quite a few books on various aspects of shamanism & hallucinogenic drugs... newly out is pinchbek's _breaking open the head_ but furst, le barre, schultes, and many more have their stories to tell...
check out www.erowid.org & www.csp.org & maybe www.psychedelic-library.org for starters i suppose...

de la Serna, Jacinto. 1892. Manual de Ministros de Indios para el conocimiento de sus Idolatrias y extirpaci?n de ellas. Published in Mexico City. See Chap. IV, sec. 3; also Chap. XV, sec. 2, para 4.Although Serna considers the mushrooms to be diabolical, he notes that the Indians regard the mushrooms as divine flesh. Serna also mentions the comparison of mushroom use to the Christian Eucharist.

------. 1953 [1656]. Tratado de las Idolatras, Supersticiones, Dioses, Ritos, Hechicerias y Otras Costumbres Gent?licas de las Razas Abor?genes de M?xico. Ediciones Fuente Cultural. M?xico. Originally published in 1656.According to Ott (1993b), "Some 75% of this text was taken from the first draft of Ru?z de Alarc?n's 1629 Tratado; about 40% consists of direct quotes.

Lanciego, Jose. June 8, 1726 [1954]. Datos para su historia La Paraoquia de Tancanhuitz.This data provides the contents of a letter from the bishop to the clergy of the Huasteca deploring the use of the sacred mushrooms.

Motolina (Pseudonym for Toribio de Benavente). 1858. Ritos antiquos, sacrificiouse idolatras de los Indios de Nueva Espana, y de su conversion a la fe (before 1569). Coleccionde de Documentos para la Historia de M?xico. Mexico city, D.F.One of the most horrifying of the written Spanish descriptions on the effects of the sacred mushrooms among indians. Motolina also notes that they are called "God's flesh", and reports of their use in Holy Communion.

Prescott, W. H. 1843. The History of the Conquest of Mexico with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization and The Life of the Conqueror Hernando Cort?s. Two Volumes. Harper & Bros. New York.

------. (Translation and editing by C. E. Dibble and A. J. O. Anderson). 1950-1969. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain by Fray Bernardino de Sahag?n. Twelve volumes. University of Utah Press. Salt Lake City, Utah.According to Ott (1993b) "This was Sahag?n's raw data, completed in 1569, his N?huatl text as dictated by 10-12 elderly, monolingual informants and recorded by trilingual (N?huatl, Spanish and Latin) scribes. See Sahagun (1992) for partial Spanish translation."

------. 1537. 1. The trial of Mixcoatl and Papalotl. Holy Office of the Inquisition. Mexico, 1912.This trial reveals an analogy between the Christian Eucharist and the mushroom agape as mentioned by Motolina and Serna. Also found in AGN Procesos de Indios, Idolatras y Hechiceros vol. III:55. Mexico.

------. 1885. Annals of the Cakchiquels, Quiche, and English Text. Edited by Daniel G. Brinton. In library of Aboriginal American Literature no. vi:114-115. Philadelphia.Obscure mention of mushrooms. See "Mushrooms, Russia, and History:282.